SSCC History
and Governance
The Social
Science Computing Cooperative has developed
over the past 23 years to provide research
computing services to agencies and departments
in the social sciences on the Madison campus.
The Founding Member of the Coop was the Center
for Demography and Ecology. The Department
of Sociology and the Department
of Rural Sociology joined together as
sustaining members in 1984 with the Institute
on Aging joining later in the same year.
The
Institute
for Research on Poverty joined in 1989 and
the
Social
Systems Research Institute (SSRI) joined
in 1996. The Wisconsin
Center for Education Research joined in
2002 and the The
Center for Demography of Health and Aging
in 2003, with the most recent member being the
School
of Education in 2008. The Coop also serves
the Applied
Population Laboratory, the Center
on Wisconsin Strategy, the Havens
Center for the Study of Social Structure and
Social Change, National
Survey of Families and Households, the Study
of American Families, the University
of Wisconsin Survey Center, and the Wisconsin
Longitudinal Study, although they are
not sustaining members.
Since 2006 the SSCC has provided instructional
computing support for the faculty, staff, and
students in the Social Science division of the
College of Letters and Science. This was the result
of a merge of the Social Science Microcomputing
Lab into SSCC.
The Coop is supported by sustaining member organizations
and their individual members. Components of the
Coop's costs are paid directly by member organizations
and their individual members. There is no fee-for-service
charge. Thus, the Coop is the creature of its
sustaining member organizations.
The Chairs and Directors of those organizations
meet annually to review the expenses of the previous
year, to consider the Coop's expenditure plan
for the coming year and to undertake their part
of its support. The admission of new organizations
to the coop requires a unanimous vote of this
group. An organization may leave the coop at will
but must give six months' notice.
Policy guidance
and oversight of the Coop is provided by a Steering
Committee made up of faculty representatives of
the sustaining member organizations appointed
by the Dean of Letters and Science on the recommendation
of the relevant Chairs and Directors. Steering
Committee members are appointed for a three-year
term. The steering committee recommends one of
its members to the dean as Chair of the Coop.
The Chair is in charge of routine oversight of
the Coop and is supervisor of the Coop's staff.
The current members of the SSCC Steering Committee
include:
Ted Gerber (Chair),
Center for Demography and Ecology
John Logan,
Department of Sociology
Carol Ryff,
Institute on Aging
Pat
Brown ,
Institute for Research on Poverty
Salvador
Navarro,
Social Systems Research Institute
Doug Harris, School of Education
Chris Thorn,
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Robert Hauser,
The Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Christine
Schwartz, Instructional Support for
College of Letters and Science
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